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seen the inside of factory. In the
rear of the palors is Secretary La.
mars library, if so it might be called.
1t is the room Of a student a man
who is not only student OF current
affairs, but q classical scholar and
poet as we'll. There are no magnifi-
cent bookcases. filled with richly
bound volumes which are not taken
down once year, and which are as
clean and new as when they came from
the binders hands. Every volume
on the plain wooden shelves is we'll
thumbed, and the dog ears at the
corners speak palmer than words of
the service they have seen.
There are books on the shelves
which the Secretary studied when he
was boy at school books of refer
ence used when he was editor OF the
Southern Reuieto in ante bellum DAYS;
a volume of Homer that was carried
in his pocket during the war; the
little library he collected when he
was professor at Oxford University,
and innumerable volumes bought
from time 10 time as he needed
them. The collection is varied
one and no system is used in their
arrangement. Novels lay beside law
books, poems touch covers with
works on philosophy and odd num-
bers of current magazines are thrown
carelessly alongside huge volumes of
government reports.
The man who sits in this library
and reads and studies, often far into
the night, is by nc means an ordinary
looking one. In appearance Secre-
tary Lamar is type of the Southern
planter of the past. Tall, well formed,
loose iointed, with flowing hair, he is
a typical representative of the old
time Southern statesman and relic
of the old regime of politics and So
ciety at the National Capital. He is
a Georgian by birth and education,
but he is by no means provincial in
his ideas, for he has been great
traveller and his mind is broadened
by travel and contact with the best
minds in American politics. From
adjunct professor of mathematics at
the University of the State, he be-
came assistant editor of The South
ern Reuie1o, which did more to pre-
pare the Southern mind for war than
any other single influence. just on
the eve of the great civil convulsion,
at the beginning of President
Buchanan's term, he was a con.
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The Old Theatrical Booth.

San Francieco Chronicle: Did you
ever see real old theatrical booth at
a country fair, such ss Jarvis travels
about with in The Lights O. London, a
kind of caravan which can BIS made
to serve as theater aud dwelling
house? 0ae of the most amusing
things about rural Britain used to be
these, and they were the regular feat.
ure of the country fairs. The proprie-
tors knew the date of every fair la the
land, and made the circuit. have
oiten thought thai the life of the wan
deripg Thespians wss rot one OF un,
mixed trouble, for the country resting
places, in green lanes and fields, or at
roadside taverns in summer time,
must have had charms, even IL it must
have been hard for the strollers some
times to get meals. But in the couu-
try the theatrical vagat onds were pop
ular, few farm houses and tsverns
were not willing TO help them along
Tor little entertainment, The back OF
the caravan was made platform when
the thester was in use, and on this
platform the hero and the heroine or
the villain came out between the per.
formances, which lasted very brief
spacs and were repeated all day at
the fair, and addressed the crowd. l
once saw the drama, or version Of
it, which lasted about nine minutes,
TO which Jarvis slludes to Sims's play,
Maria Martin; or, the Murder OF he
Red Barn, and | Can still see the
Leading man in gOudy costume IN.
der q seedy and shaggy overooat,
s,snding on the platform and hear
him cal ing to the gaping crowd:
"Wak hupl walk hupl Lat per-
formauc this ev mink Maria Martin;
Or hs Murder of The Red Barn. O-ly
one peppYW
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the beauty Of the rose in maturity,
and has, so she told ME with sigh,
many enemies" Mrs. Cleveland,
happy lady, SO lily fair, has none.
When we use the simile of the ma
tured rose to typify woman the
imagination is apt to paint a buxom
matron, TO whom naturally apply
that homely trio of explanatives-
fair, fat and 40. Mrs. Chase is fair;
she may be 40, bu fat she is not.
On the contrary, she is slender in
form and most gracefully sinuous in
every movement. Large soft eyes
warn the observer with their pene-
trating CLEANS; a cherry mouth
wreatbes rows of pearly teeth; and
dark, we'll marked eyebrows give
character to a physiognomy which is
full OF intellect. Her conversation
is that Of the woman OF the world;
one familiar with scenes of diplomacy
and with the characteristics of the
different people OF Europe. Or late
Mrs. Chase has been residing at
Fontainebleau, where the educational
advantages for young ladies are very
great. Careful and approved tuition,
at moderate rates, is obtainable at
the romantic French town on the
borders OF the great forest, and
thither some time since Mrs. Chase
proceeded with her daughter, only
returning to America to assist in the
reinterment of her distinguished
father. Her residence in Washing
ton is at her inherited country seat,
a lovely seclusiop, whence are seen
the finest possible views of Wash
ipgton. She is about to re-
turn to France, but while here
she makes few visits, and drives about
in most modest conveyance drawn
by one horse; but when she steps out
OF it, and shows herself, wrapped in
a gray check cloth newmarket ulster,
with deep velvet collar and cuffs, and
silver waist and neck loop, and indie.
scribably becoming bonnet and her
wreathing smile you have an object
lesson in the French language for de-
cidedly and incontestably, fully and
unmistakably chic is Mrs. Katherine
Chase. OLIVE LOGAN.
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pain steps in, sending her fevered
handmade, rheumatism, to rack his
joints and boil his blood. Lis those
spites which weighted the poets pen
as he wrote, Call no man happy I'm
til he is dead"
Yet think it quite possible that
old age knows supremer happiness
than any which is vouchsafed us at
an earlier period. / saw Mr.. w. W.
Corooran going into the Corcoran
Art Gallery day or two ago, aud it
struck me that upon the features of
this venerable philanthropist there
reigned an expression OF beatific
serenity most enviable to behold.
Easily recognizable by eans of the
splendid portrait OF him which
graces the gallery, the kind hearted
old gentleman is permanent object
Of interest in Washington streets,
while passing Presidents move on to
the oblivion of expired terms. Mr..
Corcoran's hair is as white as snow,
his eyes dark and sprightly, aud his
attire rich with the elegance of the
Southern gentleman who fixes his
criterion of elegance upon the
Partisan mode rather than with the
costliness Of the English maniac of
New York and Boston, who wears
clothes rough enough to serve as
nutmeg graters. | mean, to put it
plainly, that Mr.. Corcoran wears a
black velvet collar to his blue cloth
overcoat, and that handsome patent
leather boots and neatly fitting pearl
gray kid gloves and tall silk hat
complete the costume. He drives in
a coupe with fine pair of horses,
the panel marked with a monogram,
the colored driver being the only
servant ON the box.
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Respecting the works of art in the
famed Corcoran gallery, they have
been so frequently described that it
were a piece of supererogatien to en-
ter upon description OF them here;
yet by the generosity of Mr.. Corcoran
las | suppose) new pictures are be-
ing constantly added for the delight
and instruction of the public, Latest
among these is the German genre
picture called the "Forester's
Home" For those who like the
German school of painting this pict-
ure is full OF charm. The interior of
lodge in a German forest is de-
picted to the life. Stays horns and
ioxes' brushes are suspended against
the walls; drinking cups, metal
tankards and all the humble utensils
OF the domestic life of hunter are
cast with admirable confusion about
this modest home. The owner, an
aged forester in gray fustian cloth
ing, is resting after the fatigues ofth
day, while a good natured look
ing young German servant girl
is attending to the fire in one
of those curious porcelain stoves
which every "Kicklebury on the
Rhine" has seen and observed with
wonder. One would think that
bull in china shop would be hardly
less destructive than fire in china
stove, but. those of us who have
travelled in Dutchland know the CON
trary. Every detail of this picture
is labored over with intense care,
and what is the result? Why, sim
ply stiff conventional canvass, an
effort to renew the Dutch glories of
Won Ostade and Wouvermanns, aud
a contracted ideal in art which
causes the eye of the lover of nature
to sparkle with delight on turning to
the lovely seascape "On the New
Jersey Coast OF the American
artist, Richards, which hangs on the
opposite wall. Nothing but sky and
sand and sea. The luminous atmos-
phere floats above the ripping wa
ters, and there tell me, did not that
wave move? A masterpiece is this
water scene, and American connoi-
sors may well be proud of this evil
dence of American genius. The Cor
coran Gallery abounds with pictures
which proclaim the talent of our
American painters yet while glorying
in this fact, the travelled art lover must
confess that the specimens of the old
masters here gathered are poor ones.
Raphael and Sir Joshua Reynolds
walk hand in hand in the injustice of
being exhibited to the inhabitants Of
the New World by some of the sor-
riest performances of their respective
pallettes.
fancy / am somewhat like Hor-
ace Walpole, who said he never could
remember circumstance which
had not some man or woman
connected with it. Calling at
the house of friend the other
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THE LAMAR RESIDENCE,

by no means conspicuous, it is pleas
ant and inviting, and inside it is
especially attractive. The building
was until a short time ago plain,
old fashioned residence, with dingy
brick front like the one adjoining it,
and great square windows with cum
bersome green blinds. But it has
been thoroughly renovated outside
and in, and it is now as oozy mod
ern residence as there is on the
street. 1t is two stories high besides
the attic and basement, with high
steps leading into the hall and fine
bay window on the left, running the
full hight of the house and termi-
mating at the roof in a small orna-
mental tower, which did muoh to
modernize the house. The sloping
roof is covered with French tiles
painted red, as is also partly the bay
window and tower.
Entering the front door, passing
through the vestibule, and turning
to the left, you pull back the rich
portiere, and go into the reception
room and parlors, The rooms are
handsomely, though not ostentatious.
ly furnished and the ornaments are
both interesting and elegant. There
are hundreds of houses in Washing
ton more beautifully furnished, but
few are in better taste, and fewer
sill have its air of elegant comfort
and refinement. Bright water colors,
pictures in black and white and
few paintings, many of them the
work of Mrs, Lamar, jr., hang on the
walls. All about are scattered the
thousand and one little things that
can be made at home by the ladies,
and no doubt every little ornament
and bit of canvass has its little his
tory, for very few of them have ever
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the'moralist to inveigh against the nat
ural tendency in mankind and vegeta-
ton TO repair the shattered limb2
Death strikes down a great leader
and the lightning fash crashes the
strong bough to earth; for time we
are paralyzed with sadness and with
terror; yet even as our tears gush
the work of repair has already be-
gun, and anon all is as it should be,
as it was ordained to be by Omnis-
cience, whose DEGREES TO US are in
deed inscrutable. The sudden de-
mise Of the lamented Senator, John
A. Logan, threw gloom over Wash
ington society which will not be en-
tirely dispelled this winter; yet on
the very next day after the imposing
funeral there was no inconsiderable
amount of New Years gayety
going on. The old French
Court cry, so often quoted, of
"The King is dead, long live the
King" applies to something far
more permanently settled than any
monarchical dynasty. The continu-
ance fthe world and the worlds in
habitants is secured belief which
is fundamentally engrafted on the
human mind. All of us have been
called upon to suffer, and all have
passed through the stage of despair
when the very sun seemed black in
the heavens and the balmy air
freighted with the bitterness Of grief
from the death Of those we love; yet
if we live ourselves we pass through
the valley of the shadow, and the
world is once more sweet.
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What shalt | say to you of Mrs.
Cleveland save that | was all unpre-
pared Tor 80 much sweetness and so
much beauty, so much youth and SO
much graceY The photographs of the
lady do her no sort of justice, and
that colored picture Of her in Christ
mas Puck is in every point against
the nature Of the subject. The first
surprise is the complexion, Mrs.
Cleveland being gifted with that soft
ivory white colorso admired by paint
ers, so rarely seen. Perfectly healthy
looking, it is yet quite devoid of any
pinkuess, and it constitutes one of
her chieiest charms. Another feat
ure of fascination is the soft brown
hair, naturally tossed off the fore.
head in that way so universally worn
alter Eugene set itas the fashion on
her accession to the French throne.
| should think this pretty and natu-
raj way Of oombing the hair, favored
by the oounteDance Of our fascinat-
ing first lady, would with one terrific
and unexpected blow, so to speak,
knock the bottom out of the bang
business. Sarah Bernhardt once
said to me, Question of hair,
what is the matter with American
women2 Young and old, are they
all bald2 Toupettes are universal.
A false scratch" is one of the ugli-
est things in the world. If one must
wear false hair, the entire wig is bet
ter, like those worn by the Princess
of Wales. This charming person, l
was told by one who was in a position
to know the secrets of her toilet, has
number Of wigs which are duly ar
ranged for the different hours Of the
day, and which she slips on as she
dresses for the drive, the dinner, the
concert or the ball. She cannot
spare the time to have her hair re-
dressed for every occasion, and be-
sides the bombing gives her head
ache; so she has had her own locks
cut short, and is wigged from morn
till dcwy eve,
But the Princess of Wales and
Mrs, Cleveland are two very differ
ent personages, the latter being
quite young enough to be the daugh-
ter OF the former. 1t is her youth,
her freshness, her enthusiasm which
capture the heart of the beholder of
Mrs. Cleveland. She actually shook
hands with that monster mob of New
Years Day as if she enjoyed the
presence of every individual hustler
OF the lot. Unnecessary to say that
Jack and Joan were wild with ad-
miration, She made picture for a
painter in her delicate pink frock,
her white throat enciroled by
necklace OF diamonds, her small
hands incased in gloves of delicate
hue. 1t seems to be natural to her
to hold her head slightly to one side,
and the effect is Juvenile and charm
ing,
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Beautifully expressive Of this sor-
row of mortality, and also OF its nat
ural rebound, is the stauEa of the
Scotch poet, who sang;
Daisies are white upon the churchyard sod
Sweet tears the clouds lean down an 4 give
This world Is very beautiful-0h, my God,
thank Thee that livol
was wondering, l who pen these
lines to you, that can be alive when
l have actually been through
White House crush, one of Mrs.
Cleveland's receptions Of all the
world and his wife Talk of your
Stanleys in the interior of Atrica
A fco for such puny hardships and
hand to hand encounters as anything
one meets IRON naked barbarians on
their native deserts, when the clothed
specimen is here on Washington S
asphaltnm whose savagery one must
needs endure in person to obtain the
least idea of. In verify democracy is
q grand good thing, and dearly priced
by all but little wholesome regu-
lations Of its struggling hordes,
bound to see the head OF the nation,
and its heart, would be enthusiastic
cally welcomed on citizens reception
day outside the White House by
conservative person who value life
and limb. Take my experience on
New Years day. Knowing that the
President and wife would see the cit
liens between | and 2 clock pm, |
hied as early as 80 o'clock
to the outer gate of the Tx
ecutive Mansion, that to the foot
path westward, nearest the splendid
palace OF the State and War Depart
ment. Already crowd was gath
cred, which grew as the half hours
passed, until it reached the shape
and the proportions of a dense ir-
regular jam, Here is where reform
is first needed, in these alarming
brushes. A few policemen could
easily keep the largest crowd in
manageable shape by compelling the
people to form in long line Of two
abreast, like the queue at Paris
theater on an exciting frs, night. In
the wide and comparatively I'M
crowded streets Of Washington, par
ticularly those abutting on the White
House, such tail could be formed
without difficulty, and could be made
to turn the corner southwark, so that
10000 people could without the least
disturbance, march through the
gates and doors of the Executive
Mansion.
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CHANCERY SALE
-0F-
REAL Il STATE.

No. 625s, R.-Chsncery Court of Shelby
ccunty.-Jno. 7. Ellis ct al. Va. T. b.
Caldwell ct al.
DY virtue Of an interlocutory decree.for
y sale, entered In the above cause o the
18th day of January, 1851, NJ. b. So, page
highest bidder, in front Of the Clerk and
Masters office, Main street entrance 10 the
Courthouse Of Shelby county, Memphis.
saturday, February IL, 1857.
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in shelby county, Tenn,
The Cald we'll residence place, begin ming at
n point on the Memphis and Someryille road
at The northwest corner of the dep / lot;
thence south with laid lot 4 chains and 50
links 10 Nelson's coroer; thence west with
said Nelson's line l chain and 81 links:
thence ,,ogth l chain ana II nks to SAID
links; thence south chains and % links to
Mrs. Wright's north line: the2ce west l
chain and II links TO q stake thence south
with said .Wright'S line easins; thence
chains and So links; thence east IL chains
and 20% links; thence nor, b chains and
96% links TO the plank road thence east 3
chains and So links t. the begi nning, less
anout go feet of of thu south line sold to
Mrs. Wright. and a To- rs b.. les feet of Of
northeast corner, containing in all about 10
acres.
Also, a tract OF land lying 10 secuon 2,
range 5. Of the Eleventh survey ors and
Ninth Civil District. beginning at stake in
the center of the Raleigh ard Someryille
(old stage) road where William A.. Cren-
running thence south 20 chains to white
oak stump; thsnce west Sc chains and so
links to a persimmon bush with red and
white oak point rs; thence north IL aims
and 30 lipks to q hickory marked 20. M.
g. !" the6oe east AZ chains and 70 links to
stake south 26 degrees west 20 links from q
black oak marked ~ NJ. S :" thence north
As chains and so links to stake in the oeEter
Of said rosd: thence north 88k degrees east
along said road A chains and 80 links to the
beginning, containing 3l9 acres.
Terms Of Sale-0ne-third cash, balance in
one and two ye,rs, purchaser to execute
note bearing interest with approved securi
tvs lien retained; redemption barred.
s. / MCDOWELL, @. andM.
By T. B. Caldwell, d. O. and NJ
b. j. Kimbrough, solicitor for complain
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mr.. SECRETARY LAMAR
AND HIS COMFORTABLE WASH
ISGTON HOME.
How His Leisure Hours are Spent
His Wife and His Daughter
The Romance Of His Life.
ESPECIAL COnRrsrosDrsor OF TIE ArrrAt.l

ESPECIAL ooRREsPoSDESoE OF TIE APrEAL.l
WASHINGTON, January 28.-The
only member of the Cabinet who,
until a short time ago, did not have a
home in Washington, was the Secre-
tary of the Interior. He was almost
alone in the world. His first wife
had long been dead; his pretty
daughter, Miss Jennie, was at col
lege; his son was unmarried and he
lived alone in apartments at big up
town hotel. But he did not seem
to stay in his rooms great deal.
One could see him almost any
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Insnivenf Notice.

State of Tennessee, Shelby county-0fice
County Court Clerk, Memphis, Tenn, jan
uary %, 1887
tate of " ", Grady, deceased:
IAVING suggested tho insolvency of the
IL estate OF ". W. Grady, deceased, you
arc hereby ordered to give notice, by adver-
tisement in some newspaper published with
in the said State, and also at the Court
House door Of Shelby county, for all persons
having claims against said estate. to appear
and file the same, authenticated in the
30th day Of April, 1887, and any claim net
fled on or before said day, or before an ap-
preparation Of tho funds Of said estate 10
made, shall be forever barred, beth in law
and equity. Witness my hand, at office, this
26th day Of January, 1881.
-" N = ?. j. OUIGLEY, Clerk.
By Thos. B. CrenshaW, D. @.
Notice is hereby given as directed in the
~"O'' John LOAGUE, Administrator.
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THE ENDIcoTT MANSION.

day, | was SO fortunate as to meet
there the celebrated American lady,
Mrs. Kate Chase. l have expended
all my adjectives in desc 'ibing the
beauty Of Mrs. Cleveland, or l
should certainly lavish many OF them
upon the piquant attraotiveness of
Mrs. Chase. 1t were idle. in any
way, to bring these two oharmers into
juxtaposition. Spring and autumn
are respectively delightful. Mrs.
Cleveland is youthful woman,
happy in every relation OF life, and
prettier than half the pictures in the
Corcoran Gallery. Mrs. Chase has
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ASHTON. sour
Wy jade, knows
full we'll the ever
lessening stages
of moral grief.
Grape one yard
deep denotes a
world OF woe;
before it dwin =
dies TO one inch
in steps soft Ii
lac, which says
we grieve but
half so much as
t'other day we
did. Yet who
would wish to be
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